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    It is not the case that The dynamics of the warm/cold system cannot be inferred from a type recursion with equal fitness coefficients determined entirely by genetic drift

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    • 1.A type recursion with equal fitness coefficients can embed environmental state variables that systematically bias sampling away from binomial symmetry.
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    • 2.If warm/cold states alter effective population size or sampling weights each generation, the recursion structure need not be reducible to simple drift even under fitness equality.
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    • 3.Gillespie's (1974) work on fluctuating selection shows that variance in fitness across environments can mimic drift while producing non-neutral long-run dynamics.
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    • 1.The inference from distributional shape alone to causal mechanism commits the base-rate fallacy: multiple generative processes can produce identical marginal frequency distributions.
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    • 2.Lewontin and Kojima (1960) demonstrated that epistatic fitness interactions can produce population dynamics indistinguishable from neutral models at the level of allele frequencies alone.
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    • 1.When fitnesses are equal, next-generation frequency is determined solely by the binomial sampling equation
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    • 2.The binomial sampling equation with equal fitnesses produces a normal, bell-shaped distribution of next-generation frequencies whose mean equals the initial frequency
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    • 3.The distribution of next-generation frequencies in the warm/cold system does not follow a normal, bell-shaped distribution
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